Today I've been painting with thickened Japanese Black dye (not real indigo, and hopefully not real Japanese Black either, as it's carcinogenic) which gives this lovely faux indigo colour. These designs showed up best after putting a diluted dye wash over the fabric when the hand-painted designs were dry. Because these are just samples, I worked with fat quarter sized pieces of fabric.I also have a beautifully dyed left index finger, where my rubber glove had a hole. Whena girl's got a creative mood on, she's not gonna stop and race to the store for new gloves.
8 comments:
Lovely!
I can see you had real fun here. Like the faux indigo.
looks like a secret code and indigo is a good colour for secrets :)
very lovely you have been busy
Ooooh, very nice and very Japanese!
Great fabrics including the ones in the previous post.
Very nice Shirley. I loved the wicked fabrics too.
WOW WOW what great indigo designs and colors.
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